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    Mistook this for the Open Thread. Sorry: the risks of early morning, pre-coffee posting.
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    • - a comment to Soj's Anniversary thread, but I got 'post failed,' so I guess it's been pulled. I'll post…
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    • Concise.
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    • Terrific writing there, Dove. My own little country is also a US 'colony,' or client state. While I think gratitude…
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    • I agree that Heinlein wasn't a conservative like Niven and Purnelle, say. In fact, I usually think of him as…
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    • Susan: great post - but it's Egeland, not Egelund or Englund! 🙂
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    • Amazing...
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    • In a sense, of course, 'Wacken' is right that men are animals - but then, so are women. Great apes,…
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    • Not very professional, to put it mildly... Did you report him? Though I suppose it might not be worth the…
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    • The silver lining must be that this fiasco will ensure Chiraq the place in history he deserves. It strikes me…
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    • According to the press around here, it's becoming more and more usual for prostitutes to offer unprotected sex. The reason…
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    • Great points! In Norway we have this half-way house where prostitution is legal but not officially recognized in any way,…
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    • Good point. But registration, licensing, etc. means more than de-criminalization; it presupposes wholesale legalization. I.e., the authorities don't just abstain…
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    • Thanks a lot for your comment - I agree. By the way, being Finland based and well acquainted with the…
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    • Thanks for your comment, man. I like your principled take on this: Crime needs a perpetrator and a victim. If…
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    • Couldn't agree more. But then I am way above average anti-paternalist as Nordic social democrats go - one reason I…
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    • The Norwegian study of Sweden (and the Netherlands) I mentioned in the ingress found that outlawing johns only drains the…
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    • Yeah, but he was talking about Bach's piece.
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    • Exactly. That's the scene I remember best as well. The 1955 recording is spectacular in its own way, but I…
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    • Seen the movie 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould? Warmly recommended.
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